Robin Price, Printer & Publisher
Starr Mill Beverly Heights
Middletown, CT 06457

860.344.8644
rprice@wesleyan.edu

Conceived as a visual lyric composed independently by Derek Dudek (http://www.derekdudek.com/) and Keiji Shinohara (http://www.dfngallery.com/artists/artists_represented/keiji_shinohara.htm)—two artists of very different media—Language of Her Body explores the photographic nude female figure, re-interpreted through a landscape of sumi-e (Japanese brush painting). A desire to suggest alternate readings of the visual led to a third element that expands the meaning of the book: fragments of text, by author Amy Bloom, are typographically embedded into the images. Even though the page width is approximately the length of your arm, a feeling of intimacy is retained by its diminutive height.

Tosa hanga paper, with all media directly printed or painted onto the sheets. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a modified concertina, wrapped with a Japanese-style enclosure of silk cloth. Signed by Dudek, Shinohara, Bloom, and Price. Out of print.